Good luck convincing the legal system you can commit a hate crime against your own race. Seems highly improbable this will stick, though I'd throw them off campus for breaching its code of conduct in any case. Maybe try a public nuisance conviction (i think thats a thing in America). Apparently there are so few hate crimes in a white supremacist capitalist patriarchy they have to invent them though, so there's that.
Matthew Jackson, a senior at the university, said whoever drew that image didn’t understand the severity of it, and the fact that people were actually lynched throughout history. And that’s an issue, he said.
This annoys me, obviously they knew the significance - thats why they did it.
subconscious oppression.”
F**k off. Oppression isnt subconscious you hypersensitive weirdos.
“After we’ve already been making these strides … to see something like this. … It goes to show that there’s still work to be done,” Jackson said earlier this month"
Still turned it into a political football. A picture of a lynching drawn by black students to pretend a hate crime happened somehow proves we need to still do more for equality. Literally an exercise in ridiculousness.